We’ve seen the best – and in some cases, the worst – that humanity has to offer this week. My only hope is that we keep up the steady progress we seem to be making to get back to some degree of normal.

And yet in all this destruction, loss and even death, there is also opportunity.

We have a chance to self-analyze: to see where we have fallen down and where we have gaps in our defenses against all that life can thrown at us. The best thing we can do is to learn, so we’re ready the next time something like this comes our way. Because it will.

This tragedy also presents an opportunity to reconnect with the people in our neighborhoods and our workplaces. Those people we see, but maybe don’t stop to get to know. Maybe someone next door to you, or down the road, needs help. What’s stopping you from knocking on their door and offering a warm meal, a hot shower, or a place to stay for one cold night?

Every Friday on this blog, we usually share pieces of awesome digital content in the hopes that we can draw something from it and make us better.

Today, I’d invite you to post something below that you’ve done to help someone you know, or a website where you can give help directly to a community in need.